Description
Signed limited edition of One Christmas by Truman Capote.
Octavo, 41pp. Black cloth, title stamped in gilt on spine, gilt decorations on covers. Stated “First Edition” with number sequence “98765432” on copyright page. Faint toning to spine. Clean text, no marks or notations. Housed in publisher’s original red paper-covered slipcase, title label with childhood photo of the author with his father mounted on side panel. Faint shelf wear to back panel. From a limited edition of 500 copies, this being number 365, signed by the author. A nice example.
Autobiographical story about Truman Capote’s first Christmas with his estranged father, which first appeared in Ladies’ Home Journal in 1982. The story was later adapted into a made-for-television movie in 1994, starring Katharine Hepburn (in her last television appearance), Henry Winkler and Swoosie Kurtz.
